John Boehner Compares Tax Proposals Of White House To Stealing

12:22 pm - 02/28/2013

WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) declared Thursday that seeking more revenue in order to reduce the federal deficit or to replace sequestration's pending budget cuts is tantamount to stealing from Americans.

Boehner was asked why House Republicans are ruling out any further tax hikes to fix America's finances, when the more than $2 trillion in deficit reduction passed over the last two years is weighted in favor of cuts over revenue by a ratio of more than two to one.

"The president got his tax hikes," Boehner told reporters on Capitol Hill, referring to some $600 billion in tax increases Congress passed in the fiscal-cliff deal that ended the Bush-era tax cuts on incomes above $400,000.

"The American economy is going to create more tax revenue this year than any other year in our history. We don't have a revenue problem. We have a spending problem," Boehner added. "How much more money do we want to steal from the American people to fund more government? I'm for no more."

Boehner also repeated his position that the House had no responsibility to propose a new replacement for sequestration because lawmakers passed two bills -- now expired -- to do so in the last Congress.

Those bills, however, replaced only a year's worth of sequestration, amounting to less than $100 billion. Sequestration mandates $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction over 10 years, and neither of the GOP plans suggested how to find the entire amount.

Steal? STEAL?? You fucker. I watched almost forty percent of my laughable small bonus get sucked up in taxes while some corporations pay NOTHING and some billionaires have a lower tax rate than I do. Fix that, THEN we'll talk about stealing, you Pig Vomit piece of shit.

Meanwhile, millions of Americans live in or near poverty despite working around forty (or more) hours a week, and where are the theft charges against the employers who pay them less than a living wage?

But let some wealthy corporation nowhere near bankruptcy or poverty face the prospect of losing some money to taxes, and it's "theft."

The weeping orange-painted sex toy can stop talking now. Really, I wish President Obama would just... take this dood over his knee and spank him. Be the parent! Ultimate gaffe fodder, but it would be oh so cathartic.